Extractive Resource Governance Creating Maximum Benefit for Countries

PHILIP DANIELADVISOR, FISCAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENTINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDPhilip Daniel is Advisor, Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD), at the International Monetary Fund (IMF),where he coordinates FAD’s work on extractive industries. Until October 2012, he was Deputy Head,Tax Policy Division in FAD. He has conducted technical assistance projects in all regions of the worldon fiscal regimes for resource industries, on resource revenue management, and general tax policy.He is also Coordinator for FAD of the IMF’s multi-donor Managing Natural Resource Wealth TopicalTrust Fund. Before joining the IMF in 2006, Philip advised many governments on commercialnegotiations and policies for extractive industries. He is co-editor, with Michael Keen and CharlesMcPherson, of The Taxation of Petroleum and Minerals: Principles, Problems and Practice(Routledge/IMF, 2010), and also a principal author of Fiscal Regimes for Extractive Industries—Design and Implementation (IMF, 2012). Philip has been Distinguished Lecturer in MineralEconomics at the Colorado School of Mines (US), and currently serves on the Advisory Board of theOxford (UK) Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies.ROBERT DE BIASIOVICE PRESIDENT, TAXVALE CANADA, LTD.Robert De Biasio has over 27 years of tax experience, both as an advisor for a public accountancyfirm and, in the past 15 years, in the mining industry. He deals extensively with Canadian andinternational income and mining tax matters, including cross border transactions and transfer pricing,cross border financing and repatriation strategies, mergers, acquisitions and restructurings, miningtax regime review and income and mining tax appeals and litigation. Robert is also a member ofseveral fiscal associations, such as the Tax Executive Institute and the International FiscalAssociation.DARRYL EGBERTSENIOR FISCAL REGIME CONSULTANTEXXON MOBILDarryl Egbert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Metallurgical Engineering and a Master ofScience degree in Mineral Economics – both from the Colorado School of Mines. He joined ExxonCorporation in 1979 – beginning his career in the Minerals division of Exxon USA working on theapplication of Operations Research to the minerals industry. Following the consolidation of Exxon’sglobal minerals operations, his career shifted towards the economic aspects of the businessincluding industry supply demand analysis, project economic modeling and analysis, andcorporate/asset acquisition evaluation. In 1986 he moved to Exxon’s Oil and Gas Explorationorganization where he was responsible for designing and carrying out a number of special studiesrelated to petroleum exploration economics. A number of commercially related positions inExxon/ExxonMobil’s Exploration and Production divisions helped him to develop a broad and deepunderstanding of fiscal regimes around the world. In 2007 he was named the Senior Consultant forGlobal Fiscal Systems for ExxonMobil’s Upstream. He has since been involved in designing,evaluating, and negotiating fiscal structures and terms across the globe.EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE GOVERNANCE PROGRAM INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM I 5